James Nicoll Quotes

(James) White seems from all reports to have been a very pleasant fellow but he did have one huge blind spot, which is that he was as sexist as a giant ball of sexists wrapped in a dense layer of yet more sexists.

James Nicoll

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Learn
  • Doing
  • Before

• Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Children
  • Telling

• We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Injustice

• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Me
  • Television

• I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • Fun
  • Relationship
  • Training

• I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Idea
  • Embrace
  • Entertainer

• When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Poetry
  • Honesty
  • Modern

• I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like to walk.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Running
  • Tired
  • Walk

• I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of artists from Asia focus too much on their Asian background. I don't want to let go of my background, but to be a success in the U.S., which is my goal, I realize I need to surround myself with American filmmakers and producers.

  

  Rain
  • Different
  • American
  • Success

• Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they're going to be wearing bulletproof vests. … They've got a big target on there, ATF. Don't shoot at that, because they've got a vest on underneath that. Head shots, head shots.... Kill the sons of bitches.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Alcohol

• Guyal reined his horse and reflected that flowers were rarely cherished by persons of hostile disposition.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Horse

• Steiner goes further than this - and this is his own central contribution to modern thought. He states that once we have made a habit of remembering Mozart and the stars, we shall find ourselves developing powers of 'spiritual vision.' We shall never again feel ourselves to be helpless victims of the external world.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • Spiritual
  • Vision

• People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

  

  James Norman Hall
  • Peace
  • Lost
  • Identity

• By the age of 11, I was no longer going to Sunday Mass, and going on birdwatching walks with my father. So early on, I heard of Charles Darwin. I guess, you know, he was the big hero. And, you know, you understand life as it now exists through evolution.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Life
  • Age
  • Father

• It's important to work hard, stay humble, and not let the criticism or the compliments go to your head.

  

  Jessica Sanchez
  • Work
  • Important
  • Criticism

• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Pain
  • Happiness
  • Enemies

• Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Crime
  • Logic

• The greatest successes grow out of great failures. In numerous instances the result is better that comes after a series of abortive experiences than it would have been if it had come at once; for all these successive failures induce a skill which is so much additional power working into the final achievement.... The hand that evokes such perfect music from the instrument has often failed in its touch, and bungled among the keys.... Every disappointed effort fences in and indicates the only possible path of success, and makes it easier to find.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Music
  • Achievement
  • Grow

• I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Feel
  • Forget

• (James) White seems from all reports to have been a very pleasant fellow but he did have one huge blind spot, which is that he was as sexist as a giant ball of sexists wrapped in a dense layer of yet more sexists.

  

  James Nicoll